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Next week we’ll be talking technology with the President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Alec Broers, who’s giving this year’s Reith lectures. It’s part of a special series which will include a survey of your views and a vote on the most significant technological innovation of the last two hundred years. If you have any questions or comments you would like to put to Lord Broers on the growth of technology and its implications for us as consumers get in touch.
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| Monday 21 June |
 Listen to You and Yours for Monday 21 June
| TODAY: We hear from the brain tumour patient who has had an operation cancelled 6 times in 7 months we ask Britain’s construction tsar what he is doing to tackle problems in the building industry. And we report on the country where wind farms have been accepted without so much as a gentle breeze of protest.
Tumour cancellation
Noreen Adams is waiting to have a brain tumour removed. She tells is about the traumatic experience of having her operation cancelled six times in seven months.
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Construction tsar
Hundreds of thousands of new houses are to be built in the UK to ease what is claimed to be a housing shortage. We talk to Britain’s new construction tsar, Dennis Lenard, about what he is doing to tackle problems in the building industry.
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Student diaries
We catch up with Ruth, Ciaran and Sara, first-year disabled students who have been telling us about their experiences at university. This week – exam time.
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Creative brain
Creative genius has often been linked to disability, whether it’s mental illness like the madness of Van Gogh, or more recently claims have been made that Michelangelo had Aspergers, a form of autism. Most of us assume that you’re either born with a creative brain or you’re not. But a new case has come to light where brain damage following a stroke has triggered a compulsion to create. Click here to see Tommy McHugh's pictures.
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Air pollution
On Call You and Yours tomorrow be talking about air pollution: what are the effects and whose responsibility it is to do something it? Mike Pelling from the University of Leeds has been examining the composition of our atmosphere around the UK and has examined the way it has changed.
Email us here with your views or call us today on 0800 044 044.
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Northern Ireland wind farms
For the second year running enough wind power has been generated in Northern Ireland to power every school in the province. Laura Haydon investigates why Northern Ireland has embraced this new technology which has been faced with protest on the mainland.
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